Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the Lori Nash room at the Ray Friel Centre, 1585 Tenth Line Road, Orleans. Our guest speaker is Dorothy Jane Smith who will share stories about some of the notable women from our area. Tabitha Renaud will bring us up to date on activities at the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. We’ll bring you up to speed on the generous grants from the
October 13, 2023 Dear Members, Last May at the Annual General Meeting of this Society when a new President was not forthcoming, a motion was reluctantly made to wind down and disband our Society after the existing commitments were fulfilled. Should no new leader come forward by the end of the Navan Fair a “caretaker committee” consisting of Gilles Chartrand, Tom McNeely and Ivan Tanner was established to oversee that
In 1941 as the magnitude of the Second World War was beginning to strike home, Canadian families bid farewell to sons and daughters as they enlisted to go overseas. Many of these young people were wounded or killed in battle, or taken prisoner and sent to POW camps. How did Cumberland Township residents support their troops? They made a quilt. Money was collected from family, friends and neighbours, and their
Annual General meeting at the Navan Curling Club. Presentations include a discussion about “Cumberland Village’s” work on historic storyboards and the telling of the story of Cumberland Township’s early history by Gérard Boyer. See you there!
